The Month of May
Math
Movie Math
Novels by Quote
Random World Facts from the Financial Times
Novel Math
100

Star Wars Day is on May 4th, this is the day immediately following.

What is Revenge of the Fifth?

100

53, 54, 55, __ (use base 6)

100 is the next number

100

Dev Patel played mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in 2016's "The Man Who Knew" this limitless number.

What is infinity?

100

"I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel"

What is War of the Worlds?

100

With assets of more than $2 trillion USD, this country's sovereign wealth fund is the largest in the world.

What is Norway?

100

Christie's "Little Indians" minus Tolkien's "Towers"

What is 8?

200

May is named for the goddess Maia, in some versions the daughter of this titan condemned to hold up the heavens

Who is Atlas?

200

Even the janitor at M.I.T. is a math genius in this 1997 Oscar-winning film

What is Good Will Hunting?

200

The instrument called this type of "rule" helps rescue the crew of "Apollo 13".

What is a slide rule?

200

"No one believes more firmly than comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal"

What is Animal Farm?

200

The average age at which Spaniards move out of their childhood home. (since 2021)  [answer within two years]

The average age has been above 30 since 2021 according to Eurostat, the EU's stastical agency.

200

Bradbury's "Fahrenheit" minus Garcia Marquez' "Years of Solitude"

What is 351?

300

This Temptations hit begins, "I've got sunshine on a cloudy day, when it's cold outside I've got the month of May"

What is "My Girl"?

300

"Save the world.  Get the girl.  Pass math" was a tagline for this 2003 Frankie Muniz movie

What is Agent Cody Banks?

300

Jodie Foster directed & starred in this "Little" film about a math prodigy & his mom.

What is Little Man Tate?

300

"What you see there are not giants, but windmills"

What is Don Quixote?

300

Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-" times Verne's "Leagues Under the Sea"

What is 100,000?

400

In May 1954, in the case of this family v. the Board of Education, segregation in school was ruled unconstitutional

What is Brown?

400

The Fibonacci sequence factors into the clues left behind by a museum curator in this 2006 film.

What is The Da Vinci Code?

400

"When I walk down the street I bet people will say there goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was in the game"

What is The Natural?

400

Hanff's "Charing Cross Road" plus Heller's "Catch-"

What is 106?

500

Related to the ancient scarab, it's also called the May beetle, but that's arguably a bit premature

What is the June bug?

500

I have the solution! This film starred Gwyneth Paltrow as a mathematician afraid of inheriting insanity.

What is Proof?

500

"I must not fear.  Fear is the mind-killer"

What is Dune?

500

Pynchon's "Crying of Lot" divided by Hawthorne's "House of... Gables"

What is 7?

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